GNU Bug Tracker

This is a bug tracker for the
GNU Operating System. We use this to
keep records of bug reports, as well as feature requests and patches,
submitted by users and developers. Each issue is given a number, and
is kept open until it is marked as having been dealt with.

How to Report a Bug

Each project may have specific instructions on the best way to report a bug
- see the list of packages. For example, to
report a coreutils bug, just send a mail to bug-coreutils at gnu.org.
Or you can send a mail to submit at debbugs.gnu.org, with "Package:
coreutils" in the first line of the body. The two approaches are
entirely equivalent.

Submissions are moderated, so there may be a delay before your
report appears.

If you want to send a copy of your initial report to someone else,
please use an X-Debbugs-CC header rather than
plain CC, as explained in more
detail here.

You do not need to know the details of how this bug tracker works in
order to report bugs, but if you want to, you can
read more about this tracker.
To get help with using this tracker, you can send a mail to the
help-debbugs
mailing list.

Replying to an Existing Report

To reply to an existing report, for example #123, send mail to
123@debbugs.gnu.org. Or to the project's bug mailing list
address (e.g. bug-gnu-emacs), but be sure to keep "bug#123" in the
subject, else you will create a new report.

If a report is closed and receives no more mail for one month, it
is archived. Before you can send more mail to it, you must
send the command "unarchive 123" in the body of a message to the
control server address.

Viewing Bug Reports

You can read all the bug reports for a given package at the relevant
project's bug mailing list, as given in the above table (eg
the bug-gnu-emacs
mailing list for Emacs). You can also search or browse (e.g. see the
most recent
Emacs reports)
this tracker.

Advanced search

The individual bug mailing list archives (see links above) are also
searchable, and may contain older bug reports.
Finally, you can also use your preferred internet search engine to search
site:debbugs.gnu.org.